Specialization: Post-Colonial Literature

Interests: South African literature, the Caribbean and India, 19th-century American literature, Victorian literature

Dissertation: Post-Apartheid and Its Representation: The Interregnum as Motif in Selected South African Novels

Recent Publications:

"Images and Motif: The Problematic of Interpretation in the Poetry of Lemuel Johnson.” An Introduction to Sierra Leonean Literature (Forthcoming 2007).

"The Interplay Between Literature and Culture: A Thematic Approach to The African Child and So Long a Letter.” African Culture and Civilization. Ed. S. Ademola Ajayi. Ibadan, Nigeria: Atlantis, 2005.

"What’s in a Face?: The Dialectic of Facts and Possibilities in Darktown Strutters.” SAFARA: Revue Internationale De Langues, Litteratures Et Cultures. 2 (2004).

"Correcting the Lenses—The Poetry of Syl Cheney-Coker: From Opacity to Transparency.” SAFARA: Revue Internationale De Langues, Litteratures Et Cultures 2 (2003).

Major Advisor: Eleni Coundouriotis